{"id":6247,"date":"2012-06-02T21:32:12","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T19:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/primopianogallery.com\/?p=6247"},"modified":"2018-03-17T13:14:51","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T12:14:51","slug":"physiognomies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.primopianogallery.com\/en\/6247-physiognomies\/","title":{"rendered":"Physiognomies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dal 02\/06\/2012 al 23\/06\/2012<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Xiao<\/a>

Xiao Lu<\/p><\/div>\n

Curated By Dores Sacquegna<\/span><\/strong>
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The portrait is one of the oldest genres of painting that art history handed down to us, act to witness the preservation of memory, making the Faustian dream of immortality and in the time has characterized the identity of a people and its culture. Physiognomies is a sort of \u201cface-to-face\u201d with the political, social and cultural landscape that engages in a self-narrating wants playing with dynamic coordinates, ironic, psychic, revealing its complexity, the fragility of human being.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Among the historical works and the artists on display, two video-biographies: the first is on itaian artist Pietro Coletta<\/strong>(Bari, 1947, lives and works in Milan) a biographical movie by Rai Cinema\u2019s Edition.\u00a0The artist from the 70s is a leading research sculptural, with a clever use of optical illusion and space, and the second film is dedicated to Emilio<\/strong> Isgr\u00f2<\/strong> (born in Messina in 1937, lives and works in Milan) in the movie \u201cEmilio Isgr\u00f2 is and is not\u201d directed by Jacopo<\/strong> Maria Gandolfi<\/strong> (Bologna, 1980, lives in Istanbul, Turkey), which describes the production of an artistic and poetic among the first artists of Visual Poetry and Conceptual Art, known for the famous \u201cerasures\u201d of books and encyclopedias.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Among other famous works on show, the short film \u201cThe Kiss, 1963\u2033 by Andy Warhol<\/strong>, great artist of the Pop Art, the works in mixed media of \u201cThe Secret Landscape\u201d by Michele<\/strong> Zaza<\/strong> (Molfetta, 1948, lives and works in Milan) in addition, the work of Chinese photographer Xiao Lu<\/a>\u00a0(HangZhou, China, 1962, she lives and works in Beijing), known to the international press for its art behavioral research. For his provocative installations and performances, the artist (along with Tang Son, in 1988) are stopped. The incident caused an uproar, and in fact devoted her work internationally (including the photo \u201cOpen Fire\u201d in the show) and her figure making it become a sort of icon of Chinese contemporary art.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition opens with the performance \u201cTRANS-MIGRATION\u201d by Ezia<\/strong> Mitolo<\/strong> (Taranto, 1966) is a kind of \u201cmembership of the body\u201d, through a survey on the centrality of, the human body as the skin of an ever-changing society. \u00a0Sculpture, painting, photography, digital art, installations and video are the mediums used by all the other artists in the exhibition \u2013 as many as 12 nations represented: Italy, Serbia, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Venezuela, Canada, USA, Mexico, China, Republic of Korea, Australia \u2013 artists who have contributed to offer an insight into the meaning of making art today.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Apulian artist Uccio<\/strong> Biond<\/strong>i (Ceglie, 1946, where he lives and works), with \u201cThe bride impossible\u201d and \u201cMadame Bigbubble\u201d on pictishsculpture on real size, with signs and mysteries able to awaken the imagination. Dario<\/strong> Manco<\/strong> (Melissano, Lecce, 1959, where he lives and works) with this picture \u201cfragile characters\u201d, reversing the biblical vision of paradise in a continuous oscillation between being consumed and not to consume \u201cthe pineapple of sin.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In this exhibition its capture the interest of self-expression open outward, toward dialogue with each other one. The body is the portrait of existence. This is the place where there continues to happen, to know the opening, the spacing, the difference. So take the portraits in the form of bichromate\u2019s gum prints by Massimo<\/strong> Attardi<\/strong> (Rome, 1961), body-worship of Maria<\/strong> Luisa Imperiali<\/strong> (Milan, 1958, where she lives and works) and the series \u201cInfinite Present \u2013 In-addition<\/em>,\u201d a portrait on Muslims\u2019s womens who embrace a skull, by Pina Della Rossa<\/strong> from Naples, Italy. On additional the \u201cface of human being\u201d by\u00a0Nadia Cera<\/strong> (Lecce, 1965) with a portrait on glassmelting. In the sphere of international artists were invited the Venezuelans artist as Carlos<\/strong> Anzola<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The exhibition of the portraits emerge Kamalky<\/strong> Laureano<\/strong>, one of the most popular young artists of Mexico, and Teresa Olabuenaga, she is Mexican, also. From Australia to the works of pop artist Betty<\/strong>Sargeant<\/strong> and videos by Carolyne<\/strong> McKay<\/strong> that she investigates the relationship between psychology and criminology. In the pop realm the works \u201cSuicide Girl\u201d by Korean artist Alice<\/strong> Jung<\/strong> and the Swedish artist Gun<\/strong> Mattsson<\/strong>, and Belgian artist Frans<\/strong> Frengen<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Between figurative and representation the works of Germans and Canadians artists as Liane<\/strong> Amendy, Tina Dolter<\/strong> and Tom<\/strong> Ma<\/strong>. Between hybridization and cyborg the portraits of the American artist\u00a0Suzanne Anan<\/strong> and Serbian artist Jana<\/strong> Stojakovic<\/strong>. A portrait of Chinese artist Xiao Lu, devoted by\u00a0Wang<\/strong> Haiyuan<\/strong> in the his video.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dal 02\/06\/2012 al 23\/06\/2012.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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\n\tSi inaugura sabato 2 giugno dalle ore 20,00 la mostra d'arte contemporanea "Physiognomies: Il ritratto nell'arte contemporanea<\/em>", a cura di Dores Sacquegna<\/strong>. Durante l'opening la performance interattiva "Tras-migrazioni" di Ezia Mitolo<\/strong><\/span>.
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